WHERE FLOWERS CAME FROM.
Some of our flowers came from lands of perpetual summer, some from countries all ice and snow, some from islands in the ocean. Three of our sweetest exotics came originally from Peru ; the camelia was carried to England in 1736, and a few years afterwards the heliotrope and mignonette. Several others came from the Cape of Good Hope ; a very large calla was found in the ditches there, and some of the most brilliant geraniums, or pelargoniums, which are a spurious geranium. Thifeverbena grows wild in Brazil ; the marigold is an African flower, and a great number from China and Japan. The little Daphne was carried to England by Captain Boss, from almost the farthest land he visited towards the North Pole. Some of these are quite changed in form by cultivation ; others have only become larger and brighter ; while others, despite of all the care of florists and the shelter of hothouses, fall far short of the beauty and fragrance of the tropiost
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XI, Issue 752, 2 March 1878, Page 3
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168WHERE FLOWERS CAME FROM. Tuapeka Times, Volume XI, Issue 752, 2 March 1878, Page 3
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